UNITED STATES: GOVERNMENT: CONGRESS: Ohio Congresswoman Tubbs Jones Dies at 58
UNITED STATES: GOVERNMENT: CONGRESS:
Ohio Congresswoman Tubbs Jones Dies at 58
Ohio Congresswoman Tubbs Jones Dies at 58
By Ben Pershing
washingtonpost.com Staff Writer
Thursday, August 21, 2008; Page A02 <http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/
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Rep. Stephanie Tubbs Jones, a key figure in Ohio Democratic politics and the chairman of the House ethics committee, died yesterday at a Cleveland hospital after suffering a brain hemorrhage.
Police found the 58-year-old lawmaker unconscious behind the wheel of her car Tuesday night after they noticed it swerving. She was taken to Huron Hospital in East Cleveland for treatment.
Tubbs Jones "collapsed when she suffered a very serious brain hemorrhage caused by an aneurysm that burst in an inaccessible part of her brain," Gus Kious, president of Huron Hospital, said at an afternoon news conference.
Remembering Stephanie Tubbs Jones: Connie Schultz
Thursday, August 21, 2008
Connie Schultz
Plain Dealer Columnist
Cleveland Plain Dealer <http://www.cleveland.com/schultz/index.ssf?/base/
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In all the years I have known Stephanie Tubbs Jones, I have never written about her in this column.
She was a public figure, but she was also my friend. That made her off-limits for me as a journalist. But hiding behind professional boundaries now strikes me as not only cruel, but cowardly. Stephanie mattered to all kinds of people, including me.
Whenever I saw Stephanie, she almost always started the conversation by asking one question: Where'd I get my jacket? I do not believe for a moment that she always liked what I was wearing, but there was part of her that was always the cozy-up girlfriend, and that's what she called me.
"Girlfriend," she'd say, her eyes full of mischief. "What is up with . .
." Loyalty prevents me from com pleting the sentence. Let's just say she was full of opinions, and I was only too eager to hear them.
We became friends after I started dating her congres sional colleague, Sherrod Brown. She was the star attrac tion at our wedding reception in 2004, where she called my burly father "baby," then pulled his face into her bosom and squeezed him like a teddy bear.
He looked like he was about to faint, but for the rest of his life he bragged about the big hug he got the first time he met "that Congresswoman Jones."
We were mothers – full-time, all-the-time, we used to say, our smack-back to the critics of working mothers. She loved her son, Mervyn – her "man-child," she always called him. She would reach up to touch his face and say, "Can you believe he's mine?" She loved my children, too, particularly Caitlin, who once spent an evening with Stephanie and then declared that she was "too worked up" to go to sleep.
Our friendship was forged by her to-the-bones understanding of what it means to be a woman willing to stick your neck out for your beliefs. I so appreciated never having to explain the punch line. She'd seen it all.
August 20, 2008, 2:25 pm
Ohio Congresswoman Dies
By Kate Phillips
The New York Times
The Caucus
The New York Times Politics Blog
<http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/
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During the primary season, the congresswoman could often be found on the stage with Senator Clinton, as she touted the former presidential candidates platform and policies. We met up with her the night of the Ohio primary, when Senator Clinton won, and she proudly introduced her son, and gleefully celebrated the victory on the stage with Mrs. Clinton and Ohio Gov. Ted Strickland in Columbus.
She was seeking her sixth term in Congress. And she was a prominent member of the Congressional Black Caucus as well as a recent co-chairwoman of the Ethics Committee, which she helped to rebuild after a stormy period when the Foley page scandal rocked the House of Representatives.
Congressman Chris Van Hollen, chairman of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, released this statement tonight:
Congresswoman Stephanie Tubbs Jones was a courageous voice for equality and a fierce advocate for her constituents. As the first African-American woman to represent Ohio in Congress and a preeminent voice in the Congressional Black Caucus, Congresswoman Tubbs Jones spent every day working to make America a more perfect union.
'Incalculable loss' _ US Rep. Tubbs Jones mourned
By M.R. KROPKO 1 hour ago
Associated Press
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EAST CLEVELAND, Ohio (AP) Tributes from political allies and even one-time enemies came pouring in for Democratic U.S. Rep. Stephanie Tubbs Jones, a trailblazer whose energy and outspokenness made her one of Congress' most dynamic leaders.
Tubbs Jones, the first black woman to represent Ohio in Congress, died Wednesday evening after suffering a brain hemorrhage. She was 58.
"She poured her heart and soul into her job," said U.S. Rep. Dennis Kucinich of Ohio. "She worked so hard and gave everything she could. I'm devastated. Wherever we'd go, we'd speak of each other as brother and sister. It's an incalculable loss."
Tubbs Jones represented Ohio's heavily Democratic 11th District for five terms. She was the first black woman to serve on the powerful House Ways and Means Committee and the first to serve as a common pleas judge in Ohio.
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An aneurysm is a dangerous weakness or bulge in a blood vessel that can leak or rupture, causing bleeding. In Tubbs Jones, the aneurysm burst in an inaccessible part of her brain, said Dr. Gus Kious, president of Huron Hospital in East Cleveland where Tubbs Jones died. Several news organizations, including The Associated Press, incorrectly announced her death about four hours before she died.
Tubbs Jones, who chaired the House Ethics Committee, was a passionate opponent of the war in Iraq, voting in 2002 against authorizing the use of military force. Just as the war was starting in March 2003, she was one of only 11 House members to oppose a resolution supporting U.S. troops in Iraq.
"I am going to miss her as a friend and colleague, and her leadership will most certainly be missed by her constituents, northeast Ohio and the state as a whole," said Republican U.S. Sen. George Voinovich of Ohio.
She was one of U.S. Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton's biggest boosters during the primaries and was to have been a superdelegate at next week's Democratic National Convention in Denver.
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Obama called Tubbs Jones "an extraordinary American and an outstanding public servant."
"It wasn't enough for her just to break barriers in her own life. She was also determined to bring opportunity to all those who had been overlooked and left behind and in Stephanie, they had a fearless friend and unyielding advocate," Obama said in a statement.
On the Ways and Means Committee, Tubbs Jones opposed President Bush's tax cuts and his efforts to create personal accounts within Social Security. In 2005, she opposed certifying his re-election because of questionable electoral results in her home state.
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